Slow Monster rebuild

350TSS · 01-11-2019, 06:47 PM

Last couple of days have been spent getting high gloss (hard) polyester resin onto the petrol tank, seat hump and fly-screen. Two coats have been applied to the latter two with a rub down with 600 grade between (which took ages because it is very hard).
I only managed to get the first coat on the top surface of the tank. All went swimmingly until I was putting the second coat on the fly-screen when what I can only describe as “snot” dripped off the business end of the spray gun right onto just about the most noticeable part of the component. Either it was a lump in the resin which I doubt because it could not get past the spray nozzle or the resin was starting to congeal and formed into a “bogey” between the four spray nozzles. I was not best pleased as this means it will have to be rubbed down again and re-sprayed.
Nothing photogenic to show for this work.
All this work is, of course, extra and outside my ETTC which now stands at 144 hours.

01-11-2019, 06:47 PM	#11
350TSS Too much time on my hands member Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Shipbourne Bike: M900 Posts: 1,419	Last couple of days have been spent getting high gloss (hard) polyester resin onto the petrol tank, seat hump and fly-screen. Two coats have been applied to the latter two with a rub down with 600 grade between (which took ages because it is very hard). I only managed to get the first coat on the top surface of the tank. All went swimmingly until I was putting the second coat on the fly-screen when what I can only describe as “snot” dripped off the business end of the spray gun right onto just about the most noticeable part of the component. Either it was a lump in the resin which I doubt because it could not get past the spray nozzle or the resin was starting to congeal and formed into a “bogey” between the four spray nozzles. I was not best pleased as this means it will have to be rubbed down again and re-sprayed. Nothing photogenic to show for this work. All this work is, of course, extra and outside my ETTC which now stands at 144 hours.